Media to Terry Jones: You used us!

By Michelle Boorstein
Gainesville, Fla. -- With the world on standby for possible violent rioting over a proposed Koran-burning here, the most fraught moment of the day Friday involved church representatives and a huge, sweaty, frustrated media corps.

Reporters from around the world, some of whom had been waiting on the large open lawn of the Dove World Outreach Center in intense heat and humidity for days, began yelling at youth pastor Luke Jones and an evangelist who has been working with the church after the two men gave a series of unclear comments about what would or wouldn't happen Saturday-- "International Burn the Koran Day".

The appearances by K.A. Paul and Jones - son of the Rev. Terry Jones - just after 3:30 p.m. were the latest in a string of unexpected appearances church representatives made throughout the day. Terry Jones and Paul emerged shortly after 1 p.m. to say they were giving New York Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf two hours to agree to call off plans for a controversial Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero.

Two hours passed. Paul came out of the warehouse-like church, followed by Jones, 29. The men gave no clear answer to questions about whether the Koran-burning was off permanently, what the New York City project had to do with it, and whether there were behind-the-scenes talks going on that could change things.

"We're not going to tell you what's going on!" Jones finally yelled to a crowd of nearly 100 journalists and a few onlookers.

After having just had a similar, frustrating exchange with Paul, who had stood with Jones at the 1 p.m. news conference to issue the ultimatum, the hot and cranky media horde had had enough.

"Are you just toying with us to get attention?" asked a sweaty woman in a suit, crouching to keep out of the shot of multiple cameras over her head.

The crowd groaned.

"Why did you give this two-hour window?" came a shout from another side of the scrum.

"So will you say you're going to burn a Koran anytime you want press coverage?" snapped a reporter with a German accent.

"We're negotiating," said Jones, his maroon T-shirt soaked through with sweat -- but he refused to say what they were negotiating or with whom. And he kept repeating a tantalizingly ambiguous refrain: There will be no Koran-burning at 6 p.m. Saturday night.

"You're just using us! We should all leave!" someone yelled from deep in the media pack.

Silence - for a moment. "Yeah! Let's all leave!"

Jones's response: "Fine, we're not press hungry, go!"

But no one moved, until Jones turned and shuffled back to the church.

Clusters of police officers stood beneath a tree. "We know what you all know," said Cpl. Tscharna Senn, spokeswoman for the Gainesville police department, gesturing to the weary pack.

The media throng silently dispersed -- some back under the trees, where flies (maybe seeking shade?) swarmed, or for the lucky, to air-conditioned satellite trucks or cars. The only sound was a small group of college-age protesters that had gathered across the street in the otherwise quiet neighborhood.

"When our Muslim brothers are under attack, what do we do? Fight back!" came the chant.

Left standing in the middle of the field were two cameramen.

"See, if everyone leaves except for a few people, something could happen," said one.

No....The US PRESS could not wait to offer this man front page coverage all across the world and now people are dead from it in Afghanistan! How do these editors and reporters sleep at night! Shame on the US PRESS! Burn your newspapers!

I love this. Mainstream media has been using people for years to progres their own agenda and view points and now the shoe is on the other foot. How does it feel to be used like you guys used others for all these years.

In other words our media is upset that he didn't burn the Koran after all, so they didn't get the sensational story they were drooling over. They would have loved it if he had caused a huge worldwide crisis so they could sell more of their product. I agree with Nana4 below. The media pumps up any idiotic group to give them credibility.

"Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world." Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shiite mullah)

Who cares if the Koran is burned? There is fear of retaliation from Muslims as we look around and see that our country has been invaded from every country by illegals...including jihadists.

Now THAT is news and something to campaign about - a required identification system that tracks, deports, and brings criminal charges against illegals - border security.

For the media to complain to the hateful lunatic that "you used us" is ludicrous. The media took one isolated whack job with 50 followers and blew him up into an international figure solely for the sake of sensationalism. The media vultures don't play well as a bunch of pearl-clutching virgins. It's just not a believable image.

Muslims are the offspring of Ishmael, fathered by Abraham with Hagar, the Egyptian maid of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 16:10-12 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. AND HE WILL BE A WILD MAN; HIS HAND WILL BE AGAINST EVERY MAN, AND EVERY MAN'S HAND WILL BE AGAINST HIM; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

Some things never change. There is no appeasing these terrorists. They are wild by nature and seek any opportunity to carry on their carnage.

"Media to Jones: You used us!" "Media to Britny: You used us!" "Media to LiLo: You used us!" "Media to Paris: You used us!" "Media to Beck: You used us!" "Media to Vick: You used us!" "Media to Palin: You used us!" On and on it goes, poor media always being used.....
Meanwhile I'm wondering why Islam is not declared a Terrorist organization, I mean what with holy commandments like this:
1:Qur'an 8:12–I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
Is that not a commandment to commit terrorism? How about the practice of Al-taqiyya, the practice of
Muslims blatantly lying to non-Muslims, intentionally lying to non-Muslims? Why would we believe anything they say about being "Pieceful"?

Did Obama's administration pay this pastor to do this to give the media a distraction from the economy and healthcare, and a justification for building the ground zero mosque? Inquiring minds want to know.

Deal with the CORE NNARATIVES of Islamism ideology and not secondary issues

*Will Muslims recognize people's right to practice their cultures?
*Will Muslims change the narrative of imposing by sward worldwide?

ONE RELIGION –ISLAM
ONE LEADER- THE CHALIF
ONE LAW-THE SHARIA"

*Will Muslims stop being silent supporters of Muslims following Quran commands?
1:Qur'an 8:12–I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them
2:Qur'an 9:14–Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace
3:Qur'an 9:123–O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness
LEADING TO Muslims are fighting all cultures&religions worldwide

From:-- India to Russia--Philippines to England--Thailand to New York--Uganda to Nepal--Argentina to China--France to Kenya-all 58 Muslim countries

Media outlets must use some editorial discretion in cases like this. The bigoted backwater pastor of a fifty-member church does not deserve this kind of attention. You all have created a monster- he's far exceeded his 15 minutes of fame and endangered thousands of lives- BUT ONLY WITH YOUR COMPLICIT CONSENT. STOP PAYING ATTENTION. Let him crawl back under his rock.

Is the media that stupid. The media, Lame stream is a good descriptor, hyped this to create a story. This cracker clown is a pimp but the media whored itself to this fool for the money and its, not the country or news worthiness, self serving prurient motive. When the media says it was used it is as if a- well you get the idea. I no longer believe in the 1st amendment.

The past is prologue.
No one uses the media unless 'it' wants to be led.
And no one led a most willing media to do their bidding, either by their total silence in the face of a gruesome crime about to take place or their inexplicable overt respect for the Bush Regime. NO ONE in the media challenged anyone in the Bush regime when they were lying this nation into war, no one in the media investigated and reported on what Bush was up to, what he was doing and when he was doing it.
You all knew Iraq didn't have WMD, you all knew that ports were shipping millions of tons of supplies to Kuwait months before Bush announced he was "going to war" as he stepped out of the helicopter after HIS MONTH LONG vacation in Texas in the Autumn of 2002. And on and on and on I could go.
Don't complain now....

The media folks who were 'waiting for hours' at the 'church' were the biggest idiots.
Even though many of them had been reporting that people all over the world did not want Mr. Jones to burn the Korans, the media folks were right there to give wacko Mr. Jones plenty of world-wide attention and actually wanting him to burn the Koran so they could videotape it, and send it all over the world.

***The media used Mr. Jones, just as much as he used them.***
When people in other countries got angry over what Mr. Jones wanted to do, the media should have taken all of their equipment and their attention away from Mr. Jones.

There were reports today of people being killed during protests over what Mr. Jones wanted to do. People DIED because of Mr. Jones. That makes him an accessory to murder!!!!!

The media is lazy and would rather report what seems current by virtue that all other stations are 'reporting' on it rather than ignore this kind of news. Journalism has become lazy and pedestrian and increasingly relies on vanilla AP stories to fill its news pages.

While I don't think burning a Koran is the right thing to do, I find it interesting that so many blame Terry Jones for the violent acts that have been perpetrated in other countries since his announcement. He is no more responsible for those acts than an NFL team is responsible for the mob violence that has sometimes occurred after a lost game. It is time to take personal responsibility. Flip Wilson's "the devil made me do it!" was funny, but not realistic. People who murder and burn American flags are filled with hate and just prove the point that the Muslim ideology is one of violence and intolerance. Would burning Bibles have been so "newsworthy?" The media got what it wanted: sensationalism, someone to blame for their greed, and all of us focused on it. Seems like the media is protesting a little too much!

The public jumps on the media for chasing the buck and going after ratings. But hang on, who's paying the bucks and watching the shows?

Of course the media delivers what the public wants. Especially the print media which is operating on a razor-thin margin these days. The Post's news section is a giant lossmaker. Do you think it will rise above touching the story that EVERYONE WANTS TO READ? Do the industries you guys work in function that way?

Try this experiment: Wait for a Sarah Palin story, then look at the list of stories that day, and the number of comments on the Palin one compared to the others. Now you see the problem.

When we look back at ancient Rome in the time of "bread and circuses", who do we blame for the decadence, the dumbing-down? The rich men who laid on the entertainment? Or the mentally lazy public who lapped it up?

Boy, talk about shamelessly trying to pass
the buck: These media guys rushed out to
Terry Jones TO MAKE A BUCK reporting on
him ... and NOW, the minute somebody asks
why they've been covering him, they're all
desperately trying to place the blame solely
on Terry Jones himself for the fact that
they've all been a-Terry-Jones-reporting!

This is why the media has been losing
respect over the years: so few people in it
have any principles any more!

We've known what the media has been for a long time. Snooki. It's only when the tape goes viral does anyone have to address the fact those feet haven't been used to walk on a floor for years now. But those heels have seen many ceilings...

Ever since the "media" devolved into "infotainment" in their effort to sell product to make the revenue projections of their corporate owners, some of whom are not Americans, reporters became shills.
Remember "shills" ? They are people who are paid to stand at the gambling stands (like a craps table), pretending to be legitimate customers, and paid to do so, and making bets from money they are given by the pit bosses, in order to attract legitimate customers.
Reporters are now instructed to follow and "report" on ANYTHING that will attract customers: violence, controversey, conflict, anything to attract the wandering eye of the consumer.
I actually think it is a very good thing that this mob of reporters from all around the world finally stood up and said, ENOUGH! You aren't giving us anything! We are leaving!
They will all likely be fired for not standing around making up stories. But, think about it, WHAT possible fantastic stories are left to be made up about this internationally created, BY THE PRESS, "story"?
All they are left with is the notion that UFO's mysteriously descended upon the good Pastor's property and took away his used furniture and sold it to Obama.

Can you believe this??
The media who have become gossip columnists, sensationalize rather than report news, then report only what they feel is credible news, not facts or truth, push their political bias down our throats, are daring to say they've been used??
They use the American people every day.
What hypocrits.

Rev Jones is to be commended on learning his lessons from the media. Look at Palin and Beck. The media has made them millionaires and they have accomplished nothing save make fools of themselves. Not bad.

Media is always being manipulated by the right and left. What we need is straight talk which is naturally abit less profitable, but more helpful to the voter.

"When our Muslim brothers are under attack, what do we do? Fight back!" came the chant.
Proof agin of the violent nature of this sect! What brothers are under attack? It is paper. printed paper that they purchased with their own money!
Penniless -Would he get this upset if some group were burning Bible? Not likely. He would call it a celebration of civil liberty.
September 11 ... International Burn the Koran Day
Posted by: penniless_taxpayer
You are correct. He delights in burning of the Bible! He orders and sanctions it! http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/

First things first The Media is complaining they were used; please have them write 1000 times what cartoonish2 said.
But what I am waiting to see is what the ACLU will do if they try stopping him with some sort of legal action Will they stand up remember Spokane or bury thier heads.

First things first The Media is complaining they were used; please have them write 1000 times what cartoonish2 said.
But what I am waiting to see is what the ACLU will do if they try stopping him with some sort of legal action Will they stand up remember Spokane or bury thier heads.

First things first The Media is complaining they were used; please have them write 1000 times what cartoonish2 said.
But what I am waiting to see is what the ACLU will do if they try stopping him with some sort of legal action Will they stand up remember Spokane or bury thier heads.

Of course the media made this story. Here's a guy with a 'made up church" with a total of 50 followers who has the whole world interested in whether he is going to burn the Koran. Who legitimized this carackpot? Even Jerry Springer knows better.

I can't believe that the media didn't realize this from day one. Now that you finally realize this, why not just cease with the exposure you are giving this nut.
The media is so gullible, they will jump on a non-story and run with it not knowing, or caring, how many you hurt. Just as in politics, you will go easy on your favored political party, but if it's the other party you automatically go on the attack, and that's when you lie the most about the other party, and this is exactly the way Peter Jennings was, and this is the way his buddy Brian jumps in bed with Obama any chance he gets, and that's not the way to get the real story because you are only giving us one half of the story. Brian stop trying to be Peter Jennings,and be more like Walter Cronkite. Too bad we don't have people like Cronkite anymore. He might have been a liberal at heart, but he called them the right way with no slanting to favor his party. That's when we had real men in the news business.

>>>parliamentary candidates have put up signs vowing retaliation against the US if Korans are burned and in at least two provinces
And if they do, shoot them because only extremists react with such ferocity and violence. Remember, Islam is a religion of Respect, Peace, Tolerance, Humility, and Accepting of other people beliefs.There reaction is exactly what terry Jones has been talking about, but most are scared *hitless of Islam, because of this. Their absolute propensity to violence. No other religion reacts that way except Islam. So again I ask, are they respecting our right and freedom to act in anyway we want? What was our reaction to them stoning the couple to death? Barbaric hooligans!

Reporters should just walk away from Mr. Jones and his sycophants. The media created this monster by paying attention to him. The media enabled him to place the lives of servicemen and women in jeopardy and to place the entire world on high alert.

And why? Mr. Jones is a nothing. He's got a church with 50 members -- barely a pimple on the face of this earth. Outside of his manipulation of the media to feed his considerable sick ego, nobody on earth cares what he says or does.

So media members: Just walk away. Remove your microphones and cameras. Ignore this fool and he will eventually fade away into the ether where he belongs.

Everybody has been using the media for the past 18 months. Birthers, Is Obama a Muslim?, Tea Partiers, Presidential Hopefuls, polls, blah, blah, blah. Everything is a Biggggg story and gets hashed and rehashed until it becomes credible and debatable and we end up with One Big National Freak Show and nothing is "news" anymore.

Everybody has been using the media for the past 18 months. Birthers, Is Obama a Muslim?, Tea Partiers, Presidential Hopefuls, polls, blah, blah, blah. Everything is a Biggggg story and gets hashed and rehashed until it becomes credible and debatable and we end up with One Big National Freak Show and nothing is "news" anymore.

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